When you find a terrific website, how to you remember it and keep track of it? How do you share it with colleagues?

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What makes diigo powerful are:
1. It's web-based
2. Other people who share their discovered resources
3. The tags (keywords used to describe the website)
4. The groups
5. The highlighting and sticky notes
6. The educator portal

What is diigo?
This video will help explain!

Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.



Setting up an educator account at diigo
Visit the diigo educator page to find out about the education account highlights. You will sign in/register for diigo first, then sign up to have your account be an educator account.

Management tip! Easily manage delicious by installing the browser toolbar buttons - this will make it a snap to bookmark and tag your resources.

Why use a social bookmarking tool?
  • Your bookmarks aren't tied to one computer
  • Your bookmarks are easily sorted
  • Easy to share resources with others
  • Can add descriptions to saved resources
  • Can discover what resources others find valuable
  • Can search through millions of categorized sites based on keyword - think of it as crowdsourcing your searching for resources
  • Can capture screenshots
  • Can make annotations and highlights

Check out the diigo video tutorials to better understand all of diigo's functionality!

Getting Started
1. Take the tour
2. Sign up for an account (and then apply for an educator account)
3. Install the bookmark toolbar
4. You are ready to save! Go to a website you would like to save to your acocunt and save it using the diigo toolbar. Try highlighting, annotating, etc.